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1 Tanka - Ala' al-Din Muhammad Khilji
| Issuer | Delhi Sultanate |
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| Year | 1296-1316 |
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| Currency | Tanka (1206-1526) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ala' al-Din Khilji seized the sultanate in 1296 by murdering his uncle Jalal al-Din Firuz and marching on Delhi before any court faction could organize resistance. He then pursued the most aggressive territorial expansion the Sultanate ever achieved, funding his campaigns partly through systematic market price controls — fixing the cost of grain, livestock, and cloth at levels enforced by a dedicated intelligence apparatus and punishable by mutilation. The silver coinage issued across his twenty-year reign had to support an army estimated at several hundred thousand men.
The GG#D225 and D226 references reflect distinct die types documented within this reign, a function of high-volume output across multiple minting episodes rather than any single reform.